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Work 4 Peace,Hold All Life Sacred,Eliminate Violence! This is my often neglected blog mostly about my travels across country in my mobile billboard truck as I attempt to engage in dialogue with people in hopes to wake us up and inspire action to change our country and communities and selves. And it is froth with my opinions, insights, analyses toward that end of holding all life sacred, dismantling the empire and eliminating violence while creating the society and life we want

Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Bee keeper...no more

While searching for veggie oil in the Midwest, I met a
tall, trim old white guy who has been collecting, cleaning, and running used veggie oil for almost 30
years – he told me he’s turning 80 years old this fall. He was bowlegged and
slightly bent, a beige cowboy hat jammed over a shock of white and grey hair, a
tucked in long sleeved checkered shirt and worn bluejeans held up beneath a little pot
belly by a leather belt sporting a huge vintage steer horns silver buckle.

He looked like he’d be at home in the wild wild west several
decades past – and not particularly welcoming to “my kind”. But he was,
welcoming that is and he even thought he & I were seeing eye-to-eye.

Hmmmm – it was his poor 80 year old eye sight (he didn’t
want to put on his glasses) that made him read one of my bumper stickers as “against
abortion”. We had a good laugh, at least I did, when I read the rest of it to
him: “get a vasectomy”. But he was quick to assure me he believes in everyone’s
right to be different!

We then moved to talking about the environment and he
told me a sad story about his bees. He said he was a registered bee keeper in
the state of Illinois – which meant farmers had to inform him if and when they
were going to spray their fields with pesticides.

He said one morning he heard the low rumble of pesticide
planes and dashed out his home, jumped on his motorcycle and found where the
planes were taking off from. Sure enough, they were spraying a farm down the road from his.

When he approached the foreman, showed him his registered
bee keeper paper, informed him of his obligation to notify bee keepers
BEFORE they sprayed, and asked him to stop, my bee keeper elder said the
foreman just laughed at him.

About Me

i'm now a 67, almost 68 (who am I kidding almost fuckin 70!!!) yr old (still with a golden age pass to get into national parks FREE) jewish lesbian anti-racist mother - and grandmother - striving radical womonist/feminist; daughter & granddaughter of survivors of the holocaust, mother of a young amazon healer & amazing human being, lover of wimmin & student of conscious living............even tho i am the one actually driving the truck, i could not even head out from home if it were not for the support of many, many, many wimmin (and several men as well). i am now working on trying to publish my book "But What Can I Do? A Handbook for change: myself, my community, my country. I still continue to offer Racism Awareness workshops geared for White people, NO DRONES workshops, and any other that is needed. if you want to help support this journey, email me!